This really demonstrates a difference between democrats and republicans.
Democrats cared about the hypocrisy of pointing out that the opponent candidate was too old, and only started saying this after this was no longer a problem.
Republicans didn’t care that their candidate was also too old.
Damn, that’s a great point
#2Old2Run
Democrats have begun to question former President Donald Trump’s age hours after he was made the oldest presidential candidate in history yesterday. A Kamala Harris campaign spokesperson told Newsweek that “the American people are rightly concerned.”
Lol! Nature is healing.
Yes, we’re very concerned.
LOL, that is a great way to frame things. Just keep beating that drum and see how the cons like it. :)
I definitely think there is a case of Goose/Gander here. If Biden was too old, and got run out of office by opportunistic media jerks happy to harp on his age day after day, attacking things he’s done his entire adult life as if it shows he’s one foot in the grave, then by god, the Media should jump all over Trump for the same problems. This is our way of saying “Hey, if Biden was too old at 81, then so is Trump at 78, especially with 59 year old Harris in the mix. Where are you, Media?”
Tbf everyone was calling biden too old as well. You know trump is just three years younger then joe?
Its not his age it’s that his brain is broken.
His brain is even more broken than before. Watch the footage of MAGAts walking out of his rallies as he keeps repeating the same things and talking gibberish.
Just remembered one video
I hadn’t seen this before, and it was generally really enlightening that these Trump supporters have genuine concerns for the working class, obvious as that should be by now. It just sucks that they’ve been hoodwinked into thinking that Trump is their savior from the corporate oligarchy that is clearly affecting us all. Misplaced reverence to a guy who is a mechanism in the same pro-corporate atmosphere. If only they realized that the democrat party (flawed as it is) actually works toward their interests with policy, rather than attaching themselves to this “not-a-career-politician” who couldn’t care less about them. Maybe not all hope is lost on trump supporters, but the cult of personality is much too strong and has been for a long time.
I mean I saw nothing impressive there, just showing that people know they’re voting against their own interests and some ARE intelligent enough to know that but decide to not think about it.
Is this a video showing problems about Trump, or just problems with our whole system regardless of the “leadership”
Probably both
And not just normal age related broken. Though age hasn’t really improved the situation.
Neurosyphilis is wild
He abuses Adderall which would explain his cognitive decline.
Well I was calling Trump too old and Biden too old to be running for eight years now but that’s not the point is it?
Doesn’t matter if he’s too damn old when economic anxiety runs rampant in the American voting public.
This should come as no shock. Age has been a concern since 2016.
Being old is nowhere near the worst problem with Trump.
Bush Jr, Trump, and Slick Willy Clinton were all born in 1946. In 1946, Tupperware and Bikinis were invented. Also, the year HG Wells died. He was born in 1866.
Yeah, but he’s also too old.
In fact, both Clinton and Dubya are younger than Trump. Only by months, but still. Clinton’s been out of office for 24 years and Dubya for 16.
Age was only part of it, the biggest part was that Biden was noticeably mentally degraded for years.
It wasn’t the age, it was the cognitive decline. The sort of cognitive decline that makes it difficult for a person to form coherent sentences, and absorb new information, answer questions instead of falling back to talking points. It wasn’t that he had been getting worse for years, it’s that it’s this bad now, imagine what it will be like in 4.5 years.
Conservative Americans deserve a better candidate than Trump.
I do want someone better than trump, but there has not been a good candidate in my lifetime (I am in my 40s), so I am not going to hold my breath that one of the two teams will give us someone good.
The fascists are pikachu facing that people are fine voting for another democratic candidate after one day because they cant fathom losing their strong man candidate. In their world Dems losing Biden = loss of voters because if Trump somehow stopped running literally no one would turn out for the GOP ticket. Lesson is: one party is based on a vague platform, the other is based on a lunatic personality cult.
Is it just me, or has Newsweek been putting out a lot of content about how Trump is losing and doing poorly, despite most polls saying otherwise?
Beware this source. It’s one step away from a tabloid.
It provides a false sense of security for the left even though they should still definitely be worried. The past week is reminiscent of 2016 when everyone thought Trump was a joke candidate and Hillary was going to crush him.
That’s one thing to remember, troll factories don’t just shove out the same piece of propaganda. They try disenfranchise, disinterest, and even guide the people they don’t want to win towards candidates and policies they know will play into their hands. Kamala Harris is certainly a good candidate - for democrats. She’s not likely to influence Trumpers, and a more traditional candidate might have been more popular with anyone who really was undecided. A better option might have been to appeal to times when politics wasn’t as divided, and I have even joked that someone like John Kerry with Mitt Romney as VP would have been a sure win.
Kamala’s a very traditional candidate, if we’re talking about her record. Trump, on the other hand, is the only President in US history to’ve never held public office or served in the military before being elected. Very non-traditional.
It’s the left who is dividing us by having the R’s run a convicted felon! I don’t understand how anybody doesn’t understand this !!
Reddit and even Lemmy is notorious for this.
Trump this, Trump that. Trump is a pedophile. Trump has 34 felonies. Trump had sex with a pornstar. Trump called veterans losers.
Does that all matter when Trump is still polling among the American working class who felt left out from globalisation and had to compete for underfunded and limited infrastructures and resources with immigrants, who themselves are also trying to get better lives as the American working class?
Not one from these articles mention why Trump still has support: it’s because those from the Rust Belt, whose jobs were outsourced, literally have nothing left to lose. They are pinning their hopes to a conman who says things that disenfranchised salt-of-the-earth wants to hear. But most of the media do not mention this. Instead, they paint these disenfranchised people as racists and ignorant. Sure, some of them are, but people who feel insecure become desperate cling to any lifeline-- even coming from a devil. So the people are tricked to vote against their own interests. But the media never mentions this. Why? Because they themselves are part of the elites who have their own economic stake. They have houses now worth ten times than what they initially bought them for, and they don’t want someone further left to be elected to alleviate the housing crisis. That’s why Bernie Sanders was never given a chance by the liberal Democratic Party.
And imo, and this is a hard to swallow pill, is that even normal middle class is complicit to growing right wing movement for not acknowledging the economic anxiety and disenfranchisement of the working class with constant and endemic NIMBY-ism. “Oh those poor homeless people. I want affordable housing for them but I don’t want them built close to my neighbourhood because it will depreciate the value of my property.” I admit, I am guilty of it. I should join protests and show solidarity with the working class but I haven’t joined any in my life.
Excuse me for the rant but the corporate media is definitely trying to hoodwink the public by not mentioning the actual cause of rise of racism and bigotry, and the public is none the wiser because their only source of information is from the same corporate media who do not tell them that housing and job insecurity is what made Trump and far-right in Europe gaining votes. Here in Europe, the media and politicians acknowledge the issue of immigration and stating it’s important to separate the genuine racists from those with “genuine concerns”. Jeez, what might those be genuine concerns, I wonder? Is it lack of jobs and housing? How come the media and politicians never say what those actual genuine concerns are?
You can call Trump, Le Pen, Sweden Democrats, Orban, PiS, Meloni etc. racists and fascists, but if people don’t have jobs and housing, does the name-calling ever matters? Gee, how come people from Rust Belt, the de-indutrialised Northern France, England and Western Sweden voted for the far-right? And here comes the Principal Skinner meme moment: nah, they’re ignorant and racists. Totally not because of decades long neoliberalism and austerity, despite UN report warning that lack of public investment fuels the far-right.
He’s always been too old. Biden dropping out is just his core from dating it because they at least understand the concept of “don’t throw stones in glass house.” Meanwhile conservatives only speak two languages - hypocrisy and fanaticism.
“don’t throw stones in a glass house” bitch I’ve been pelting this greenhouse since before the first term.
SOME democrats like living in glass houses, walking on eggshells, and sticking to bad options.
Just look at that turkey gobbler! That is a sure signs of someone who is too old!
They should. Both Biden and Trump belong in a home
both? biden isn’t running any longer (is there some sort of bot swarm happening here)
You’re being weirdly pedantic. Biden is still just as old as he was, so he’s still too old to run. If some other octogenarian stepped up and said he’d like to run I would say he’s too old too.
Good observation. Wonder if they will respond.
Whew struck a nerve. Impressive
Biden still exists, you know?
Someone can still be old even if they aren’t running for president. Nothing in the statement implies or relies on biden still running for president, just that he is old. He still is. It’s ok to still think about people even when they aren’t in the news anymore, they didn’t go away.
(is there some sort of bot swarm happening here)
Welcome to Lemmy politics 🙂
I won’t say bots specifically. But yes, there is a PALPABLE tide of accounts that are just going to muster the least-bullshit reason they can find to oppose the idea of the Democrats being good or worth voting for, and repeat it relentlessly, even if the least-bullshit they can come up with doesn’t even approximate making sense. And they never shut up. They’re just sort of stuck on Biden right now because the new Harris talking points aren’t fully marshaled yet.
Have fun! Try to enjoy it. I like using them to tee up extensive explanations of what is good and right in politics, that would be weird and partisan if I just showed up and started announcing them.
HEY DID YOU KNOW BIDEN SPENT HALF A TRILLION OF AMAZON.COM’S DOLLARS ON FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE? That’s almost ten times what any other US politician has ever done, and that was back in 2009
See it’s weird if it just comes out of nowhere
Specifically, their own homes. Both are rich enough to afford private duty nursing.
We have a perfect museum for Trump. It’s themed around “Tolerance”. He would be around his greatest heroes.
Is there a nursing home prison? Because Trump belongs in prison, and maybe his age and poor health will save some taxpayer money.
